I absolutely love this photo! The way the child is positioned staring at the camera and the position of the panda’s paws…it’s just so beautiful! I’ve always loved pandas. They are like giant teddy bears!!!
I’m taking a Photography class this semester and have had multiple assignments thus far like display motion, dof, landscapes, etc. Here are some.
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
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Women of National Geographic | Nat Geo
“Jane Goodall’s story of a young girl who loved animals and dreamed of going to Africa and who found a way of making that dream come true—is also one of the great scientific sagas.” [more]](http://www.nationalgeographic.com/explorers/women-of-national-geographic/#/jane-goodall-baby-chimp_44346_600x450.jpg)
Women of National Geographic | Nat Geo
“Jane Goodall’s story of a young girl who loved animals and dreamed of going to Africa and who found a way of making that dream come true—is also one of the great scientific sagas.” [more]
Source: National Geographic
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
- Dr. Seuss
Art is a lie
Picasso said art is a lie. One of the finest painters to come out of the first half of the 20th Century, who greatly impacted the art world with the Cubism movement, declared, “Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth given us to understand”. Understand what? What truth? Is art a lie because it isn’t real? It is an expressionistic manifestation of reality? From a literall pov, art is not real until it is created. Before the first brush stroke it is simply a concept/idea. The physical construction is what makes it real. But it’s in sort of a third dimension. We can take photographs or record video and audio or draw a still life setting, but it was never the same as the original…the “real one”. Even a carbon copy image is still an image that has crossed the line from reality to imitation. Art is imitation. It is the simplistic beauty of capturing what you see with your mind, or a seperate medium, and reproducing a copy. Art is a lie because we create it’s truth. We convince ourselves and each other of it’s truthfulness through manipulating reality and molding our results into an honest expression of ourselves and all that exists around us. The more we manipulate reality, the more convincing our lies become. The sky may be blue, but we paint it with a purple blush. The mountains may be smaller but we build them up. Artists have the great luxury of turning the “real world” into the world they want. Through art we create lies that feed our dreams and desires. Art is a lie to the viewer, but mostly to ourselves. Nothing is more gratifying that creating something that is your own…that no one else can claim.
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